NEUROFIT NETWORKS INC DBA Parkinson Wellness Recovery

Parkinson Wellness Recovery (PWR!) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization dedicated to advocating for the translation of cutting edge research on exercise and brain change to real world health care paradigms TODAY.

The organization was founded in 2010 by Becky G. Farley, PhD, a neuroscientist, physical therapist, and Parkinson exercise specialist who focused her post-doctoral work on understanding bradykinesia (slow small movements) in people with Parkinson disease, and then developed and did the initial research for the LSVT BIG exercise program. She has now founded PWR! to truly implement “Exercise as Medicine” for people with PD.

In Tucson, Arizona, Parkinson Wellness Recovery has created a Model Neurofitness Center of Excellence for Parkinson Exercise.  PWR! Gym is a place where people receive cutting edge exercise and enrichment programming from PD-exercise experts everyday. What that means is that the techniques and exercises for Parkinsons patients that Dr. Farley teaches around the world are put into practice at the PWR! Gym.

• The PWR! Gym specializes in proactive PD-specific rehab and fitness programming that is research-based, accessible, and integrated.  The type of neuroplasticity-principled programming that offers hope to slow motor deterioration, and maybe disease progression.
• Its’ not just about exercise for strength, balance and flexibility; it’s about exploiting exercise as a physiological tool to trigger and optimize the body's own endogenous brain health and repair mechanisms.
• All group and 1:1 rehab or fitness programming at the PWR! Gym is guided by research suggesting “how” to exercise to optimize brain health and repair (neuroplasticity). 
• All instructors are PD-exercise experts, trained by Dr. Farley in this Exercise4BrainChange ™ programming. 

PWR! is about breaking down barriers, changing healthcare paradigms, living longer and better despite Parkinson disease. We want there to be Centers of Excellence for Parkinson Exercise in every community.  Hubs where people can learn HOW to exercise to promote brain health and repair.  Where everyone has access to HOPE and resources to slow motor deterioration.  Where research on neuroprotection and neurorestoration is translated TODAY in the REAL world and updated regularly as more and more emerges.

Your donation will help us to move that dream forward, helping people with PD get BETTER and STAY BETTER longer.